''Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda'' is a 1667-1670 oil on canvas painting by

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( , ; late December 1617, baptized January 1, 1618April 3, 1682) was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporar ...

, now in the

National Gallery, London The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

, to which it was presented by the

Art Fund Art Fund (formerly the National Art Collections Fund) is an independent membership-based British charity, which raises funds to aid the acquisition of artworks for the nation. It gives grants and acts as a channel for many gifts and bequests, as ...

, which had bought it for £8,000 the body had been given by Graham Robertson's executors. It had been in Paris by 1812 before being acquired by Colonel George Tomline and remaining in British private collections until 1950. The work is one of eight paintings commissioned for

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

's Hermandad de la Caridad, to which the artist himself belonged and one of whose commandments was to clothe the naked. Four of those eight works remain in Seville ( ''The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'', '' Moses at the Rock of Horeb'', ''Saint Elizabeth of Hungary'' and '' Saint John of God Carrying a Sick Man''), whereas the London work and the other three were looted by Napoleon's army in 1810 (''

The Return of the Prodigal Son The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus Christ in the Bible, appearing in Luke 15:11–32. Jesus shares the parable wit ...

'', National Gallery of Art, Washington; ''

Abraham Receiving the Three Angels ''Abraham and the Three Angels'' is a c. 1670-1674 oil on canvas painting by Murillo, now in the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, which bought it in 1948. The work is one of eight paintings commissioned for Seville's Hermandad de la Ca ...

'', National Gallery of Canada; '' The Liberation of Saint Peter'',

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is the list of ...

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